Paula Zumberge never urged her husband to "keep shooting" at Todd Stevens on the May evening when Stevens died at his New Brighton home, her lawyer said Wednesday.

"It's all a TV show -- it's all speculation" about Paula Zumberge's involvement in Stevens' killing, attorney Gary Wolf said. He said Stevens' girlfriend lied about Paula Zumberge's comment.

But prosecutor Anna Christie argued Wednesday that Paula Zumberge didn't merely encourage the shooting: "The court can infer that she was a knowing and active participant in this horrific crime, and she is just as guilty as her husband."

Attorneys presented their closing arguments in the Ramsey County District Court murder case Wednesday morning.

Neal Curtis Zumberge

Wolf said he changed his mind and decided not to call either Zumberge to the witness stand.

Paula Zumberge, 50, has been charged with aiding and abetting second-degree murder, aiding and abetting attempted murder and aiding and abetting assault. The charges pertain to both Stevens, who was shot in the torso and head, and his longtime girlfriend, Jennifer Damerow-Cleven, who also was hit by pellets.

Neal Zumberge, the alleged gunman, has been charged with second-degree murder and attempted murder.

Witnesses testified at trial this week that the Zumberges had an ongoing feud with their neighbors who lived across the street on Knollwood Drive.

Neal Zumberge told police that he had contracted Lyme disease, blaming the fact that his neighbors habitually fed the deer in their yard.

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His behavior became threatening, Damerow-Cleven testified, and she filed for a restraining order in April 2013.

Days before the killing, Stevens and Damerow-Cleven ran into the Zumberges' son, Jacob, at the Spring Lake Park VFW. Jacob Zumberge, 23, said he was angry with them over his father's Lyme disease. He then shoved Stevens, Damerow-Cleven said.

The couple left the VFW and went home. They called police, and officers put out a hold on Jacob Zumberge. Police also told the couple to call if they happened to see him again.

By May 5, Jacob Zumberge had not been picked up.

On her way home from work, Damerow-Cleven stopped at the Acapulco restaurant in New Brighton for takeout food, she testified. On her way out, she saw Jacob Zumberge, his brother, Nicholas, and another man coming in.

She immediately called police and waited for them to arrive and arrest Jacob.

When Damerow-Cleven pulled into her driveway later that evening, about 8:30, Paula Zumberge walked to the edge of the Zumberges' yard.

Furious about her son's arrest, she began yelling at Damerow-Cleven, saying, "You put my son in jail!" Damerow-Cleven testified.

Stevens came out of the house. As he stood on the doorstep, Neal Zumberge crept around the back of the Zumberge home and began firing a shotgun, witnesses said. Buckshot pellets hit Stevens in the head and torso, and he fell to the ground and died quickly.

The prosecution played a video of the shooting, captured by cameras on Stevens' house, in court Wednesday. Though poor in quality and without audio, it shows Paula Zumberge coming out of her home and facing the neighbors' house across the street.

According to Christie, "Paula's role is to get them outside, not just Jennifer. So what does she do to get Todd out of the house? She starts making threats."

Once Stevens is outside, Neal Zumberge comes around the side of the house and looks to make sure Paula is "out of the line of fire," Christie said.

"She does not react when the gun goes off," the prosecutor said. "Neal and Paula Zumberge were in it together ... against the people who made their lives a living hell."

The neighbors conflict with their son was the last straw, Christie posited. "That's when they executed their plan to finish this themselves."

After the shooting, Paula Zumberge drove off without calling for help, Christie said.

And she did not contact law enforcement, even though she must have known they wanted to talk to her, Christie said.

Police found her at her mother's house two days after the shooting. Her mother told an officer that Paula Zumberge had hired an attorney and did not want to talk.

Wolf told the court that just because the Zumberges are married doesn't mean Paula Zumberge is responsible for her husband's alleged crimes. Nor does the fact that she was present at the time of the shooting.

No other witnesses heard Paula Zumberge say anything like "keep shooting" or "shoot him," as Damerow-Cleven claimed, Wolf said. Damerow-Cleven told only one police officer of the alleged comment, he said -- hours after the shooting.

"She needed time to compose the lie," he said. It grew from her anger at what had happened to her partner and best friend, which extended to the police who failed to protect them, Wolf said.

"The justified anger became an incubator for revenge," he said. His client is innocent, he told the court.

Zumberge waived a jury trial; Judge Lezlie Ott Marek will file a written verdict in the case by next Tuesday, her law clerk said.

Neal Zumberge, 57, will appear in court for a scheduling hearing Friday.